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School Board.

FT,he regular meeting of the School Board
J. will be on the first Saturday in April, at
which time the schools of the parish, for the
year 1887, will probably be located.
j. Fl. KEYSER, Superintendent, &c.
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If any one tells a falsehood on you.
only take care that what has been
said shall not come true.
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NJ ]. B. Oneal has a Livery and
|ied Stable at Haughton, where
|hs stock Of the travelling public
|slll Do cared for in the best manner
|'ad on the cheapest terms. The
aOle Is spacious and we'll kept,
plenty Of good feed for stock
'M experienced men in charge.
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Close connection at Chattanooga for points
in Tennessee and Virginia; and at Cincinnati
for Northern and Eastern Cities.
For further information, as to rates, &C.,
write to l. HARDY,
Assistant General Passenger Agent,
Vicksburg, Miss
ii. F. CLARKE, H. COLLBRAN,
Superintendent, Genl Passenger Agt.
Vicksburg, Miss. Cincinnati, Ohio.
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She2'6f'S Sale.
s. Herold No ISL. In the
VS.. District Court, Cad
Ned Wallace. do Parish, La.
DIV virtue of a writ of fieri facias issued
ID from above Court in the above entitled
suit, and to me directed have seized and
and will proceed to sell to the last and highest
bidder, within the lawful hours of sale, at the
Court house door, in the town of Bellevue,
La, on Saturday, Goth day of March. 1887, the
following described property, to-wit:
One old gray mare pony one white cow and
calf, one small gray mare pony, and one roam
mare pony.
Seized as the property of the defendant,
Ned Wallace, and will be sold to pay and
satisfy said writ.
Terms of Sale-Cash, with the benefit of ap:
praisement.
R. E. WYCHE. Sheriff.
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6SSrCSdUiu&.-- %tO ~
on north half of northwest quarter of section
IA, township II, range 3D. 80 acres.
STINSON, D. B. g. ]. A.
Tax for 1886. 40
on west halt of northwest quarter of section
2, township ~. range ID; southeast quarter of
northwest quarter of section IS, township 20,
range -; 100 acres.
BARSTOW, w. R.
Taxes for 1885. 90
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An epitome of everything that is attractive
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1887.
HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.
An Illustrated Weekly.

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State TAG Sales
ImImOvabIe Property.
The State of Louisiana

The State of Louisiana
VS..
Delinquent Tax Debtors, Parish of Bossier
Ry virtue of the authority vested in me by
~ the Constitution and laws of the State OF
Louisiana, will sell, at the principal front
door of the Court House, in which the civil
District Court of said parish is held. within
the legal hours for judicial sales, beginning at
IL o'clock A. M, on Saturday, the 2nd day of
April. A. D., 1887 and continuing on each suc-
ceeding day, until said sales are completed. all
immovable property on which taxes are now
due to the State of Louisiana aud Parish of
Bossier, to enforce collection OF taxes assessed
in the years 1888, 1884, 1885 and 1886, together
with interest thereon from the 3lst day of De-
ccmber, at the rate of one per cent per month
until paid, and all costs:
MITCHELL, J. D., ct ais, Minors
Two-thirds of Tax due for 1884 .$5 80
:. g 1 1885 q 20
ISS6. 9 90
Aggregating $24 20
on twO-thirds interest in 400 acres of land, to-
wit: North half and north half of southeast
quarter of section q, township Is, range IL.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
Inconsistent.

The Presidents veto of the depend
ent pension bill has been sustained.
The ostensible purpose of the bill was
commendable, though it is generally adj
mitted that it was loosely drawn and
contained inadequate safeguards against
fraud. 1t is to be hoped that a bill
which obviates these objections will
pass the next congress, and thus give
relief to several thousand worthy vet
Grams of the war who are dependent on
the bounty of their friends or the pub
lie for their support, but whose cases
are not covered by existing pension
laws. But whatever may have been
the defects of the vetoed bill, the Presi-
dent can hardly be credited with con-
sistency in his act. AT the opening of
the present session of congress the
President made an appeal in his mes
sage for the benefit of the dependent
soldiers, saying, among other things,
that A." if these eX-soldiers are to be re-
lieved, they and their cause are entitled
to the benefit of an enactment under
which relief may be claimed as right,
and that such relief should be granted
under the sanction of law, not in eva
sion of it." Congress responded to the
Presidents suggestions by the passage
of the act he has refused to approve.
In his veto message he did not content
himself with pointing out the possible
defects Of the measure, but it appears
that he distorted the facts in order to
make the bill odious to those who had
not carefully examined the subject.
He had signed the Mexican pension
bill, which was even more objection
able, for that bill is likely to benefit
more confederate than Union soldiers,
while the vetoed bill was to benefit Union
soldiers alone. Inasmuch as the Mexican
bill recognizes the dependency of the
applicant as valid claim for pension,
whether he received injury or not, it is
difficult to see how the President could
consistently object to the application
of this principle in the dependent pen
sion bill. In the debate in the house
on the question of passing the bill over
the veto it was shown that in 1884 Mr..
Cleveland had signed petition asking
that pension of IS per month be
granted to all honorably discharged SOL
diers. 1t would appear, therefore,
that the Presidents consistency upon
the pension question is as equivocal as
his course in relation to civil service
reform.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
Report on the Hartford Disaster.

We give elsewhere the material por-
tions of the report of the railroad com
mission upon the disaster at Hartford.
Briefly summarized, the report states
that up to the time the accident oc-
Cured the train was run with due and
proper care; that when the derailment
occurred the train was running at
speed of less than twelve miles an
hour; that the brakes were gradually
let on and off at proper points; the act
of the engineer in opening the throttle
of his engine and pulling apart the
train is approved; that the derailment
was primarily due to the breaking Of a
rail, and then to the giving away of the
central journal on the forward trucks
of the sleeper Pilgrim" in some way
unknown to the board, but due doubt
less to a violent collision with the
broken rail; that the defect in the
that it could not be detected until dis
closed by the breaking of the from"
and that the want of a guard-rail upon
the approach to the bridge in no wise
contributed to the disaster and, in this
instance, would not have prevented it.
The board criticise the prevailing
methods of heating and lighting cars,
and express the opinion that heating by
steam and lighting by electricity will
prove practicable. The report of the
commissioners is generally commended
as fair and impartial, and the only
point upon which dissent is expressed
is in regard to the primary cause of the
accident. The conclusion of the COM
mission that it was due to the broken
rail contradicts the theory of prominent
railway officials of other roads, who tes-
titled that it was probably due to the
broken axle of the Pullman car. But
in either case it does not appear that
the accident was preventible.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

THE last issue of the Rural Yer
monter attacks Mr.. Tinkham because of
his pertinent comments upon the adj
dress of Mortimer Whitehead, lecturer
of the national grange, at the Roches-
ter farmers meeting. The address
was not fully reported in our columns,
and we failed to find an extended re-
port of it in the Rural Permonter.
Therefore it may not be generally
known that Mr.. Whitehead INDUCED in
blatant TRADE against the republican
party, while he was comparatively mild
and guarded in his criticisms of the
democratic party. We imagine that
his attempt to belittle the republican
party was to eXalt the work and aims
of the organization which he repre-
sents. His mis-statements, false logic
and perversion of facts deserve severer
criticism than they received at the
hands of Mr.. Tinkham, though the
game may be hardly worth the powder.
No one objects to Mr. Whitehead at
lacking alleged corporate abuses" as
this is the customary thing for dema-
gogues to do, but we demur to his 60
ing about the state assailing the repub-
lican party, and claiming the credit of
some of its best work for his organiza-
ton, under the pretense of serving the
interests of the farmers! His work APP
pears to be as much in the interests of
the democratic party as was st. Johns,
whether it is designed to be so or not.
If there were any republicans at the
Rochester meeting who approved of
Mr.. Whitehead's political sentiments
they are notvery strong in the faith"
Until the alleged Rural Vermonter was
set up as a political organ, it was sup
posed by majority of people Gnclud-
ing many grangers) that the grange
was non-political organization, but
since Mr.. Whitehead began his work
in this state we are learning the base
uses to which worthy organization is
being put by some of its ambitious and
INSCRIPTIONS leaders.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

SOUTHERN EUROPE has been visited
by one of those exhibitions of the wild
power of the forces of nature which are
most terrible and fatal to human life.
1t is believed that more than two thou
sand lives were lost, and of course the
destruction of property is great. AT
this distance we can hardly realize the
horrors of this appalling disaster. The
world has been terrified often before
this with the frightful destruction
wrought by earthquakes in the south of
Europe. Among the most disastrous
recorded in history are those of Italy,
A. d., 526, when 100000 persons per-
ished; and in Sicily, in 1893, when 60, 900
lives were lost The earthquake in
Lisbon, in 1855, destroyed $4,000 lives 4,
one in Palermo, in l726, destroyed 5000;
one in Naples, in 1905, destroyed 5000;
one in Chios, in 1881, destroyed 1000;
and one at Ischia, in 1884, destroyed
5000. Only ninety-six lives were lost
in the Charleston earthquake last year.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

THE returns from the German cleo
tons show that Bismarck remains
master of the situation. He will have
sufficient number of supporters to
pass any measures which he thinks
necessary. The official returns show
the election of seventy-five conserva-
tives, thirty-four imperialists, eighty
four national liberals, ninety centrists,
fourteen new German liberals, six So
cialists, fifteen Alsatians, thirteen Poles,
two Guelph, one Dane and two others
whose views are as yet unknown.
Sixty-one supplementary ballots are
necessary. The socialists have gained
in some quarters and lost in others.
The liberals have been badly worsted.
The results in Alsace-Lorraine show
that the people have not become
reconciled to German rule.
The elections IN the Dominion of
Canada last week resulted in a con-
servative victory, though by a reduced
majority. Premier McDonald's ma
jority in the new parliament is now put
at forty-a loss of thirty-fve. The
secession party in Nova Scotia was
signally defeated.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
Republican Presidential Candidates.

In an editorial on republican presi-
dental candidates the Springfield Re
publican aims to show that " outside of
Mr.. Blaine's personal friends the ten
dency of public opinion is now strongly
against his denomination, and that
the West is weaned from him to a
great extent" all of which has no basis
of fact. The statements are abund-
antly disproved by the opinions of
prominent republican politicians and
newspapers East and West, which we
have quoted from time to time, and
from the canvasses of the several legis-
latures now in session. At this time
he stands as the strongest and most
available republican candidate, and in
trying to show the contrary the mug
wump papers utterly misrepresent the
situation. But with them it is plainly
a case where /" the wish is father to the
thought" The Republican is of the
opinion that Senator Sherman is the
only western man who would stand any
chance of carrying New York against
President Cleveland. 1t does not ven
ture the assertion that Mr.. Blaine could
not carry New York, and this reserva-
ton is significant. If President Cleve-
land is renominated he is going to be a
less formidable candidate in New York
than before. The record he has made
as President thus far has weakened him
in his own state. With the more or
less open opposition of such democratic
journals as the San and World, the
hostility of the soldier element, the
dissatisfaction of the old-line demo-
Gratis with his course and the waning
influence of the mugwumps, he would
have more desperate struggle to carry
New York than when he carried it (ac-
cidentally) by a very narrow plurality in
1884; and it is quite unlikely that his
prospects would be aided by a repeti-
ton of the Burchard incident or of
other causes that contributed to the re-
publican defeat. The assumption of
the Republican that probably there is
no man whom the democrats would be
better pleased to see nominated by the
republicans " than Mr.. Blaine is also
destitute of foundation in fact. If the
Cleveland democrats and mugwumps
believed that Mr.. Blaine was weak
candidate they would do all they could
to encourage the republicans to nom
mate him; on the contrary, they are
doing all they can to discredit him with
republicans, which is proof enough
that they dread his denomination and
will do all that lies in their power to
prevent it. Mr.. Blaine may not be a
candidate again, but his prospects are
not to be blighted by the unfavorable
opinions of democrats and mugwumps.
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
(republican) in recent editorial on the
subject well says:
Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Blaines friends are,
first of all, republicans, and if it can be
shown that any other republican than he
can command larger popular suffrage
that will be the end of the pressure from
any source to make him candidate. His
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

SENATOR MoRRILL's bill looking to
the settlement of the claims existing
between the state of Vermont and the
United States growing out of the st.
Adams raids authorizes the appoint
ment of two commissioners to act with
the governor and auditor to adjust and
settle all accounts and claims between
the United States and Vermont, or
arising from the delivery to the state
of the military property of the United
States, or otherwise resulting from the
relation of this state to the United
States in providing for the public de-
fence or the prosecution of the war.
In case of disagreement as to any claim
or demand to be adjusted, as provided
in the first section of the act, the COM
missioners for the United States are
authorized to unite with the governor
and auditor in the selection of an UNI
pire in the determination of all matters
of disagreement on just and equitable
principles. To defray the expense
which may be incurred $4,000 is appro-
priated. The bill provides that the
award of the umpire shall be final; if
adverse to the United States, it shall
be treated in the same manner as if it
were a judgment of court of claims
and paid accordingly; if adverse to
Vermont, the sum recovered, after
paying the necessary expenses, shall
be covered into the treasury of the
United States.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

THE State Board of Health has is.
sued a circular to the selectmen of
towns, giving the laws under which the
latter are to act in reference to con-
tagious diseases, slaughter-houses, nui-
sances, etc. The appointment of some
medical man as health officer in each
town is advised, who shall exercise the
utmost vigilance in respect to sani-
tary matters. 1t is suggested that
when smallpox, cholera, scarlet fever,
measles, diphtheria, typhoid fever,
typhus fever, relapsing fever, epidemic
dysentery, hydrophobia, or CHAMBERS
shall become developed in any locality
the fact of their existence shall be re-
ported to the selectmen or other proper
authority, who shall take active meas
ures to prevent the spread of the dis
ease. In all cases of death from small
pox, typhus fever, diphtheria, scarlet
fever or measles public and church
funerals should be forbidden. Direc-
tions are given as to isolation in cases
of these diseases, disinfection of prem
Uses, etc. Where there is case of
scarlet fever children of the family
should not attend school, and books
from public library should not be car
ried into the house where the disease
is. The main source of typhoid fever
is drinking water; hence there should
be careful examination of water sup
plies, sewers and drainage, and the
throwing of household refuse garbage,
etc, into the public road or street should
not be permitted. Whatever is dan
gerous to human life and health, what
ever renders soil, air, food, water or
other drink unwholesome, and whatever
building, erection or part or cellar
thereof is overcrowded or not provided
with adequate means of ingress or
egress, or is not sufficiently supported,
ventilated, severed, drained, cleaned
or lighted, are all really nuisances."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

THE existence of the forty-ninth con-
gress will terminate Friday noon. The
house had lively time Thursday over
the dependent pension veto, during
which several members INDUCED in
strong personalities. The veto was
sustained by vote of 175 to 125-the
measure lacking twenty-five of the
necessary two-thirds required to make
it law. All the republicans present
and twenty-five democrats voted to
pass the bill over the veto. Senator
Sherman having resigned the presi-
dency pro tenn of the senate, the re-
pubicans of that body held caucus to
select his successor. The vote stood /:
ingalls,, eighteen; Hoar, eight; Ed
munds, one; Frye, one. On Friday
Senator ingalls, was elected by vote
of thirty-nine to twenty-siX for Senator
Harris (democraD. The house substi-
tute for the fisheries retaliation bill
was disagreed to by the senate, and is
in the hands of conference commit
tee. The senate passed in an amended
form the Pacific railroad investigation
resolution. The house passed the ag-
ricultural experiment station bill and
the Belmont substitute for the senate
retaliation bill. The senate passed the
house bill to create department of
agriculture and labor, but with amend
ments, and a committee of conference
was asked. Objection was made in the
house and the bill has gone to the COM
mittee of agriculture, with little pros
pect that it will become a law. The
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

following is not of a blind and besotted
character, which proposes to thrust him
upon the republican party, regardless of its
wishes or its fortunes, but he is presented
upon the grounds both of his pre-eminent
qualifications and his supreme availability.
If in the comparison, in these regards, 1t can
be shown that any eminent republican is
his superior, he will cheerfully stand aside,
and no true friend of his will continue to
press his name,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

senate has passed the consular, diplo-
matte and agricultural appropriation
bills, the labor arbitration bill and the
pleuro-pneumonia bill, and the house
has passed the naval appropriation bill
Important business lags in the house
and there are fears that an extra ses-
sion of the new congress will be neces-
sarv